I finally got my Mac Mini, After weeks of agony!
G4 1.42 GHz CPU
1GB DDR SDRAM (I got it from a 3rd-party vendor and upgraded with a putty knife – saved $90!);
Combo drive (DVD writer is useless, just got a 250GB firewire drives);
Bluetooth + wireless keyboard and mouse;
80GB internal disk;
Total paid: under $800
Getting iPod connected to Mac Mini: priceless!
Thanks Hanbing for the encouragement and advice! I wouldn’t dare to pry open the spanking new Mac the first day I got it with the putty knife otherwise.
I would say that Mac OS X is a valuable thing to have.
I still still find nice things that work better than I expected.
The most recent one being after installing “Fink”, the machine can function much like a Debian machine, managed via “apt-get”.
Try insert a DVD; Play it a bit; eject and insert it again, you will be prompt to whether to resume from where you stopped.
Try the iPhoto slide show with tunes from your music library. And you can rotate, modify during the slide show.